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of 37,000 ft.

But that figure was based, not on actual

was made upon the side in Aramaic, which thus became the

mysticism. His best known works are: a manual of theology

b, bulla; c, neck; d, trunk; e, e, lemnisci.

and in botany ``adhesion'' is used of dissimilar parts,

in Westminster Abbey; and there, in May 1895, a portrait

with leaf-like and root- like appendages.

memory of the soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War.

ferric sulphate may separate), and is then evaporated until

The Latin word amictus was applied to any wrap-like

It is the prose epic of feudalism, and its romantic spirit,

in 1341 by Alphonso XI. to secure freedom from the Moors,

order direct the payments to be continued until the child

between the two great empires of Asiatic Russia and British

nature. Algae are withdrawn from each of the three series

which gave its name to the Adriatic. Its origin is variously

of the middle class were hospitably entertained. The inferior

10 across at its widest part. The area of the two lakes is

HISTORY

ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord

secession. In Kentucky the Unionist victory was secured

Alfarache, a celebrated picaresque novel which passed through

where Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796. (W. A. B. C.)

Story of Africa and its Explorers, 4 vols. (1892-1895);

m., and, below, only about 423,000 sq. m., or say 20%,

The Abbasids still maintained a feeble show of authority,

1873 he succeeded to the throne. His reign was uneventful,

is the cork, and the stripping of the bark is under official

notre siecle.'' About the middle of the 18th century, too, they
Aeschylus. In the legends of Peloponnesus, Agamemnon was

cocoa-butter prepared from cocoa-nut oil are manufactured

is the work of an author of no mean skill, and that he has

city of the Canaanites, E. of Bethel. The meaning of the name

established under the authority of this ordinance by the lord

and coasting steamboats. It is a quaint, old-fashioned city,

that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme

(judex), but in the later he settled the formula (i.e.

the monk Alberic (Aubry) of Fontaines, (Albericus Trium

tended greatly to the consolidation of the newly recovered

purity of Lutheran doctrine. He died at Eisenach on the

The Armitage fund (E. Armitage, R.A.), which provides two annual prizes

He hastened to employ Germans for the reorganization of his

original; his implements, especially his drill, display much

in progress, of the mechanical aids to agriculture. The

and handed the fortress over to the British to save it from

wind and weather. As against the civilian enemy the navy

impurities present in the crude material being sulphonated

above the right bank of the Reuss, not far above the point

Callimachus, undoubtedly the greatest of the Alexandrian

introduced the terms multinomial, trinomial, quadrinomial,

ambassador, Sir William Hamilton, and aimed at substituting the

and far- ranging to be told in detail. They continued

the grandson of his predecessor, Abdallah, one of the weakest

dwellings, and a group of some fifty tumuli near Altamura.

highest possible hand), ten or eleven counters, according to


``This is the cause of this approwment. Nowe euery husbande

in 1736 as Thesaurus linguae Latinae compendiarius. It was

preferentially combined in equiatomic proportions had as an

as above, so that the manganese does its work over and over

ensuing battle (in January 1831), both Sabagadis and Marie

islands. As for the butterflies, not more than one-third of

declared that it considered itself no longer bound by the Black

up, in conjunction with H. A. Lorentz, on the general lines

to by Dioscorides and Pliny. It also appears, from an old

heat. The myth itself probably represents the destruction

which it issues through the Nidau Canal and then runs E. to

layers of the body-wall in Coelenterata. He became a fellow

adhesion (like ``adherent'') is used of any attachment to a

should have a clause in it providing for ``the accommodation

1900 41,883,065 122,665,913 37,079,356 185,472,321

unsuccessful candidate for the dignity of Exilarch, and thus

preserved towards Bulgaria an attitude skilfully calculated

expedition of 1805 and in the siege of Copenhagen in 1807,

Edward Abbott (1841-1908), a clergyman, were also well-known

From these plants active principles termed aloins are

Anarchists, and to deport any who might be found in the country,

of Caria, opened with the Macedonian court with a view to

a certain amount of gold and ivory was exported from the

eggs, even resorting to a short immersion in the water during

belonged to the Franks, and Charlemagne thought it necessary

abdominal operations, these cases were generally allowed

Alhazeni libri VII., cum ejusdem libro de crepusculis et

invade Syria, he entrusted `Amr with a high command. `Amr soon

Strand, where it was visited by upwards of 20,000 people. He

medal of the Royal Society was awarded to him for these


lakes, and readily dissolves when coagulated in acids.

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